| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The result of cutting: cut, gash, incision, slice, slit, split. See ENTER, HELP. 2. The act or process of decreasing: abatement, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, decrement, diminishment, diminution, drain, reduction, slowdown, taper. See INCREASE. 3. An incision, a notch, or a slight cut made with or as if with a knife: score, scotch, scratch. See MARKS. | | VERB: | 1. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop1, clip1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop1, lower2, pare, prune, shear, trim, truncate. See INCREASE. 2. To penetrate with a sharp edge: cut, gash, incise, pierce, slit. See ENTER, HELP. 3. To criticize harshly and devastatingly: blister, drub, excoriate, flay, lash, rip into, scarify1, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slap. Informal : roast. Slang : slam. Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to. See PRAISE.
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